The nurse wants to provide specialized nursing care for a client with a serious illness. Which does the nurse use to choose between palliative and hospice care for the client?
1. Hospice care prepares the client's body for death.
2. Both philosophies enhance the client quality of life.
3. Hospice is useful at any time for very serious illnesses.
4. Palliative care is curative therapy for short-term illness.
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2. The nurse knows that palliative care and hospice care enhance the quality of life for the client. Hospice care concentrates on symptom management for the client who is dying, whereas palliative care assists clients at any time during serious illness, is useful with curative care, and is helpful with a long-term chronic illness.
1. Hospice care is holistic client care in preparation for death; however, the body prepares itself for death.
3. Palliative care is useful at any time for very serious illness.
4. Palliative care is used with curative care; they are separate entities.
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